Henry muller



(No Model.)

H. MULLER...

OIL CAN.

No. 401,451. Patented Apr. 16, 1889.

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HENRY MULLER, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

OIL-CAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 401,451, dated April 16, 1889. Application filed February 15, 1889i Serial No. 299,957. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY MULLER, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Oil- Cans, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to hand oil-cans, in which provision is made both for venting the can to facilitate the flow of the oil and for catching the drip; and it consists in a hand oil-can of novel construction having these and other ends in view, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the views.

Figure 1 represents a View in elevation of the can with a portion of it broken away and in section for the purpose of better illustrating the invention and Fig. 2 a transverse section, on a larger scale, upon the irregular line as so in Fig. 1 and a plan view of the drippan portion of the can only.

A indicates the body of the can; 13, its stopper drip-pan, and 0 its spout, all of which may be of the usual or any suitable construction; but the bottom of the body A is made stout or rigid, as there is no necessity to spring or flex the bottom for the purpose of discharging the oil from the can.

Combined with the spout C is a tube, D, which serves the double purpose of an airvent and a drip-pipe. Said tube D ishere represented as being fastened to the interior of the spout upon its one side at its base portion, and is preferably made tapering in a downward direction. It is open, only presenting a contracted aperture, 1), at its bottom, but preferably closed at its top. Said tubeis arranged to extend a greater or less distance downward into the upper portion of the can and any desired distance -up into the spout above the drip pan or cup B, and is provided with an intermediate vent or air-aperture, a, passing through the side of the spout immediately above the drip-pan D. This tube D serves the double purpose of draining whatever oil may gather in the drip-pan back into the can, and also as an air-vent when the can is in use. The pressure of the column of oil in the spout when the can is inverted being greater than the pressure of the oil on the smaller end or contracted opening in the lower end of the tube D, the air will rise through this tube and escape in bubbles through the oil.

The tapering shape of the tube D helps the latter to draw ofi the drip and also to more ef- 6o fectually act as a vent, while it is almost i1n possible for the oil to enter the smaller end of said tube when the can is inverted, as the pas sage of the air in a contrary direction, aided by the tapering shape and position of the tube, will prevent it.

The portion of the tube D when closed at its top above the drip and air aperture 0, will act as a reservoir to hold any oil that may possibly happen to be in the tube when the can is inverted for use.

There are many advantages attached to cans of this description. They provide for the drip of the oil being entirely carried off into the can itself, thus keeping the outside 7 5 of the can clean. There is no necessity for an adjustable vent or for a spring-bottom to the can,as in ordinary squirt-cans. There is a saving of waste as compared with squirtcans, the flow of the oil being steady and only feeding as much as is necessary, while the drip, no matter how much, is all carried off, as above mentioned. Again, as the arrangement which permits of the flow of the oil and air is connected with the spout only it allows 8 5 the use of a can of any shape or size, or even of a glass bottle it it is desirable to have a receptacle in which the amount of oil can be seen. The can can be used with the heaviest and thickest kinds of oil, it only being neces- 9" sary in such case to proportion or enlarge the openings to the spout and vent.

, It will be obvious that the shape and precise location of the tube D and its amount of extension up into the spout or down into the and it might be so embedded or built up in the spout as virtually to form a part of the spout; but the construction and arrangement of the tube hereinbefore described and shown in the drawings has advantages, as specified, and is preferred.

Having thus described my-invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In an oil-can, the combination, With the spout and drip pan or cup of a can,of a tube applied to the spout arranged to pass up into the spout and down into the can, and provided with a combined drip-aperture and air-vent intermediately of its length and above the drip pan or cup, substantially as specified.

2. In an oil-can, the combination, with the body of the can and its drip pan. or cup and spout, of atube closed atits top, but open below, applied to the spout of the can and arranged to pass up into the spout and down into the can,

passing through it and the spout above the 30 drip pan or cup, substantially as shown and described.

HENRY MULLER.

Witnesses A. GREGORY, O. SEDGWICK. 

